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The country and he basically is browbeating them down into not -- >> they were willingly being browbeaten. >> bill: is that a good thing? >> i think they are excepting about the upcoming policies. what is interesting, the day before, he met with union leaders, who were also very happy. maybe we will have a -- >> bill: maybe this is what he should do and to stay away from the crowd estimates and the illegal aliens, voting. that doesnt get us anywhere. if he is able to forge an alliance between th...

The white house. he lied about everything he encountered. dont believe me, believe ted cruz who called him a path lonl call liar. this is a part in effort to delegitimize media through the use of little lies. so that when the media goes and exposes the big ones was trump, the people wont be listening. >> reince priebus said this morning on the sunday morning talk shows, the media is being a concerted effort to the delegitimize the president, alice. >> thats clearly what -- how they see it and ho...

Was packed. so we caught them. and i think theyre going to pay a big price. >> as you saw a moment ago, his press secretary came out late today and tore into the press core what he says what his reporting. cnn doesnt give crowd estimates. we want to focus on what he had to say around people around the world. hes jim sciutto. >> from this day forward, its going to be only america first, america first. >> minutes after taking the oath, president trump defined a foreign policy focussed very much at...

Comes into play. >> lets pull up with jim sciutto tweeted thats getting a lot of attention. forget the crowd estimates. what happens when the numbers actually matter? u.s. troops killed, terror cells i.d.ed, north korean missiles fired? thats totally different. this is about an issue thats not that important how many people were there. but very important issues were going to rely on what the white house press secretary says. >> who knows what sean spicer is going to say about these things when i...

The opinion of the american people lie. i want to talk more about what the president has talked a lot about and that is crowd size, his white house spoke person, sean spicer came out and said youre wrong, there were more people at the inauguration, but heres what our jim sciuto tweeted that a lot of people are talking about today. forget crowd estimates, what happens when something happens that actually matters, north korean missiles fired, because the facts do not back up what sean spicer said ...

And i turn on the thing and by mistake i get this network. and it showed an empty field. and it said we drew 250,000 people. now, thats not bad. but its a lie. we had 250,000 people literally around, you know, in the little bowl that we constructed. the rest of the, you know, twenty block area all the way back to the washington monument was packed. so we caught them. and i think theyre going to pay a big price. >> as you saw a moment ago, his press secretary came out late today and tore into the...

Quite amazing and the multiplicity and sophistication of subjects that it takes on. so it is remarkable. and what you should also know that about an hour or so ago, i wrote a piece for the pointer institute on pointer.org and very quickly, folks tweeting upset with me because i did not use the word lied. i did not use the word falsehoods in describing what trump and spicer did today. so to the extent that the old gray lady, "the new york times," is altering its rhetorical methodology, its also r...

Protest, that happened in the white house briefing room. that was sean spicer, the new incoming white house press secretary. that followed remarks by the president that well get to later in this broadcast. but he essentially was relitigating the crowd estimates and the reporting on the inauguration yesterday, including you heard there criticizing a particular tweet of the vast universe on social media. so we asked cal perry to get our arms around the known facts and known photography, including ...

Next four years, but also get into the act themselves. we are about to flex our first amendment muscles, dont you think? thats "hardball" for now. catch me sunday, ill be chuck todds best on "meet the press." our special coverage on msnbc continues now with brian williams. good evening. brian williams here with you. thanks to chris matthews for tonights special two-hour edition of "hardball." were going to take a look over the next hour at what has been, by any standard of measurement, a remar...

Inauguration yesterday, include, you heard there, criticizing a particular tweet of the vast universe on social media. so we asked cal perry to get our arms around the known facts and known photography, including crowd estimates from yesterday. cal is our msnbc senior news editor. cal, have at it. >> so just for viewers at home. why do we not have an official number? the reason is the national park service stopped doing it after the million man march in 1995. lets put up the quote. due to the di...